Education Allocations

Each year Blue Waters devotes up to 1.8 million node-hours to educational activities. These allocations provide a unique learning experience for students across the nation by enabling them to use the extraordinary capability of Blue Waters to broaden their knowledge and develop their own interests in a wide array of disciplines, from the traditional areas of science and engineering to emerging areas in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Read more about Education Allocations.

Scaling to Petascale Institute

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), the Blue Waters project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), Stony Brook University, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are organizing a free, week-long "SCALING TO PETASCALE" Institute. The goal is to prepare participants to scale simulations and data analytics programs to petascale-class computing systems in support of computational and data-enabled discovery for all fields of study. Participants can join the institute at one of the many collaborating host sites or view the sessions online (YouTube).

Webinars

Blue Waters provides a series of free webinars throughout the year. The webinars are conducted almost every Wednesday, with a few exceptions to avoid conflicts with major HPC events, such as the Blue Waters annual Symposium. Most sessions will be an hour in length, although some will go longer. Each session will start at 8 AM Pacific - 9 AM Mountain - 10 AM Central - 11 AM Eastern - 4 PM GMT.

All sessions will be broadcast on Youtube live, and recorded for subsequent playback. To receive the Youtube live web address for each session, please register for each live session you wish to attend. All sessions are free, and you may register for as many sessions as you like.

Participants may join the webinars from their own web-enabled device. We also encourage people to meet together as a group to promote active discussions among the local participants.

Internships

The Blue Waters Internship program focuses on motivating and training the next generation of supercomputing researchers, the program is sponsoring about 20 undergraduate research interns each year. The goal is to engage undergraduate students in petascale computing research and development projects. The program provides each student a stipend totaling $5,000, a two-week intensive high-performance computing workshop, and an education allocation on the Blue Waters system. Select students will travel to The Blue Waters Symposium. This program includes support for undergraduate internship activities at any accredited degree granting institution in the United States. The internships awarded through this program may be for students working with a faculty mentor on their home campus, or at another campus. Interested faculty can work with a particular student that they identify, or may select a qualified student with Blue Waters support through our program.

Students and faculty who are members of groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM are strongly encouraged to participate in the program.

Graduate Fellowships

Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships provide PhD students with a year of support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, an allocation of up to 50,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system, and funds for travel to a Blue Waters Symposium to present research progress and results.

Journal of Computational Science Education

The Journal of Computational Science Education (JOCSE) is a peer-reviewed online journal that accepts articles describing contributions to the teaching of computational science. Regular articles report the results of computational science instructional materials, projects, and approaches in educational settings. Articles may also include the results of formal or informal assessments of the materials or programs on learning outcomes, on the diffusion and adoption of computational science programs, and the workforce and career development. Students may publish the results of their research and internship experiences and the impacts of those activities on their academic and future career outlook. The journal and instructions to authors can be found at http://jocse.org/.

For more information about Blue Waters training and educational events and opportunities contact Blue Waters Education, Outreach, and Training team at bw-eot@ncsa.illinois.edu.